I couldn't agree more, Christophe, and I am also enjoying Mark's input here as well. Nice conversation overall!
I really don't know what's going on in America, at the street level. The sudden call for "amnesty" struck me an awful lot like a drunken abusive husband snarling at his battered wife between blows that she must forgive him, otherwise she's a beast. Of course, I do not have a front seat to the spectacle, so may be missing key details. One thing I've observed elsewhere is that when someone concludes that some other person or group of people are unfit intellectually and/or psychologically, and thus beneath their dignity (and this is a common human flaw), they are likely never to change their mind on that, dismissing evidence to the contrary and rationalizing their initial impression. And from the words I've heard from the article that set this off, it seems to me to be part of what is going on.
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Re: Eisenstein - The Mask of Derision
Date: 2022-11-11 06:46 am (UTC)I really don't know what's going on in America, at the street level. The sudden call for "amnesty" struck me an awful lot like a drunken abusive husband snarling at his battered wife between blows that she must forgive him, otherwise she's a beast. Of course, I do not have a front seat to the spectacle, so may be missing key details.
One thing I've observed elsewhere is that when someone concludes that some other person or group of people are unfit intellectually and/or psychologically, and thus beneath their dignity (and this is a common human flaw), they are likely never to change their mind on that, dismissing evidence to the contrary and rationalizing their initial impression. And from the words I've heard from the article that set this off, it seems to me to be part of what is going on.